Dane County WI Archives Photo Tombstone.....GORST, Robert 
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Cemetery:           Mazomanie Cemetery, Mazomanie, Dane Co., Wi.
Name:               Robert GORST
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GORST, Robert
Born 1796 in Northwhich, Lancashire, England
Died 27 Apr 1863 on his farm 4 miles south of Mazomanie, Dane Co., Wi.
Husband of Martha/Marthy

LETTERS OF EDWIN BOTTOMLEY[p.] [p.21] 
page 94 

9 The British Temperance Emigration Society was organized
at Liverpool by Robert Gorst, Charles Wilson, and Charles
Reeves Dec. 26, 1842. As a result of its activities
several hundred persons migrated from England to Wisconsin
during the next few years, and settled in the vicinity of
Mazomanie in western Dane County. A good brief account of
the Society's activities is given in William Kittle,
History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie (Madison,
1901), 9–47. In the Wisconsin Historical Library are
several boxes of letters and other manuscript records
pertaining to the history of the Society and the
settlement.  
 
The History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie, 
BY WILLIAM KITTLE, MADISON, WIS. 
STATE JOURNAL PRINTING CO. 1900.
 
ROBERT GORST was born in Northwich, Lancashire, Eng., in 
1796. He was in Frodsham's store in Liverpool for a number 
of years, and in 1844 came to Gorstville. He was the chief 
founder of the British Temperance Emigration Society. He 
settled on a farm about four miles south of Mazomanie and 
died there April 27, 1863. There were six children, two of 
whom are living: John Gorst, four miles southeast of 
Mazomanie, and Mrs. Harrop, in the village.

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